Parents applauded at the International School of Louisiana’s monthly directors’ meeting, May 23, when board president Andrew Yon reversed course and urged the board to drop plans to add another charter to its portfolio in the coming school year. Instead, the board should concentrate on solving problems at schools already under management, in particular the […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Enrollment spike for next year holds key to overcoming slight budget shortfall
Directors of New Orleans Charter Science and Math High met May 10 for their monthly board meeting to discuss plans for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. A financial report indicated that cash flow has stabilized, and things are not as tight as they were in January and February, thanks in part to the flow of […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Proposed budget increases by modest 2%
The leadership of Audubon Charter School will hold a public hearing on its proposed 2012-13 budget Saturday at 11:30 a.m., 719 S. Carrollton Ave., seeking input from parents and community members. Next year’s budget, which goes into effect July 1, is 2 percent higher than the current year, rising from $6.72 million to $6.84 million. […]
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
[UPDATE: Meeting has been canceled.] Board meeting agenda released
UPDATE: tomorrow’s McDonogh 42 board meeting has been canceled. === Review TCSA’s board meeting agenda here.
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Board attends to final financial details before handing the reins to FirstLine
Revenues from Jazz Fest parking more than doubled this year, directors of Langston Hughes Academy learned at their May board meeting. The school made almost as much on the first weekend ($17,390) as it made on both weekends last year ($19,000), and the second weekend pulled in a hefty $27,893 for a grand total of […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Squandered Heritage
The news was sometimes buried, but the T-P helped us back on our feet
I saw the headline and thought about the reporters, photographers, editors and staffers at the Times-Picayune and what this means for them. I wondered how they felt reading about their fate in another publication, not their own. Then I began to think about the news we wouldn’t be reading in the refashioned Times-Picayune and what […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
The axe falls: Life without that daily dose of ink on paper
It took 10 hours for The Times-Picayune to run a story about today’s big local news, which the New York Times broke last night: New Orleans will soon be out of a daily newspaper. The awards-winning Times-Picayune, one of the most-read papers in any metropolitan market, announced that it will reduce its delivery and sales […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Opinion: Changes at TP were necessary, but are they the right ones?
The decision by The Times-Picayune to cut publication to three days a week and go all-in on the web is a response – probably belated – to some pretty grave realities. Whether it’s a solution is another question. What the bean counters have to hope is that they’ve struck the right balance between the web, […]
Posted inInside the News Room
Open Society Foundations renew and increase funding for The Lens
We’re proud to announce a continuing and increased grant from one of our major donors, the Open Society Foundations. The Lens was founded in 2009 as the city’s first nonprofit newsroom with a grant from Open Society, and it has supported us at an average of $160,000 over the past three years. It is generously […]